melancholly
melancholly is the obsolete spelling of melancholy.
Meaning of melancholy
Adjective
melancholy (comparative more melancholy, superlative most melancholy)
- Affected with great sadness or depression.
- Melancholy people don't talk much.
- Synonyms:
- melancholic, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen
- Suggestive of wistfulness or subdued emotion.
- Twice a day she took them out to feed in the marshy places, let them waddle and gobble for an hour or two, and then drove them back and shut them up in a small dark shed to digest their meal, whence they gave forth occasionally a melancholy quack.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 356
Forms of melancholly
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more melancholly |
| superlative | most melancholly |
| Noun | |
| plural | melanchollies |
Questions about melancholly
- What is melancholly the obsolete spelling of?
- Melancholly is the obsolete spelling of melancholy.
Words near melancholly in the dictionary
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